The Venice Film Festival will go ahead as planned in September, with organizers promising to defy the threat of the coronavirus pandemic.Major film, music, television, and sports events have all been either cancelled or postponed this year, due to the spread of the COVID-19 virus, with the Cannes Film Festival now postponed until an unspecified date.However, although Italy has been one of the hardest hit countries by the virus, Roberto Cicutto, president of the Venice Biennale, the organisation that runs the Venetian festival, told Italian news agency ANSA on Monday that it would not be postponed or cancelled.Cicutto also denied plans mooted by Cannes chief Thierry Fremaux to collaborate on a joint event after the indefinite postponement of
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